How Omicron Changes Your Odds of Long COVID

A new study out of England found the risk of Long COVID to be lower with the Omicron variant compared to Delta. That’s good news, but there are some caveats. Andy chats with one of the researchers behind the study, Dr. Claire Steves, who breaks down the risk of Long COVID based on age and vaccination status. Benjamin Mazer joins to discuss why the population of Americans experiencing Long COVID remains largely unseen, and why the amount of quality data from the U.K. on Long COVID far surpasses the U.S.

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Check out these resources from today’s episode: 

• Read Claire’s report out England that found the risk of Long COVID to be lower with the Omicron variant compared to Delta: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(22)00941-2/fulltext
• Read Ben’s piece on why the population of American experiencing Long COVID remains largely unseen: https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2022/06/long-covid-chronic-illness-disability/661285/
• Find vaccines, masks, testing, treatments, and other resources in your community: https://www.covid.gov/
• Order Andy’s book, “Preventable: The Inside Story of How Leadership Failures, Politics, and Selfishness Doomed the U.S. Coronavirus Response”: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250770165 

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